if you don't keep and guard and mature your force, and above all, have time and quiet to perfect your work, you will be writing things not much better than you did five years ago. ... you must write to… — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper - whether little or great, it belongs to Literature. — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
You must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world. — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
“This is a very small world; we are all within hail of each other. I dare say when we get to Heaven there will… — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
It seems to me like stealing, for men and women to live in the world and do nothing to make it better. — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
my friends plunged into a borderless sea of reminiscences and personal news. — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
When she walked...she stretched out long and thin like a little tiger, and held her head high to look over the grass as if… — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
You never get over bein' a child long's you have a mother to go to. — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
The warm sun kissed the earthTo consecrate thy birth,And from his close embraceThy radiant faceSprang into sight,A blossoming delight. — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
A story should be managed so that it should suggest interesting things to the reader instead of the author's doing all the thinking for… — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
There's some herb that's good for everybody, except for them that thinks they're sick when they ain't. — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
I've found that people who look at things as they are, and not as they wish them to be, are the ones who succeed. — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
There is something out of gear about graded schools and all that. Memory is developed at the expense of what in general we are… — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
My dear father; my dear friend; the best and wisest man I ever knew, who taught me many lessons and showed me many things… — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
